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The Roundtable

Book Picks - The Open Door Bookstore

By Joe Donahue
Published September 21, 2021 at 11:14 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks from Lily Bartels at The Open Door Bookstore and Gift Gallery in Schenectady, New York.

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Crazy Sorrow by Vince Passaro
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
New Women in the Old West by Winifred Gallagher
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adington
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
Every Day Amazing by Mike Barfield

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